emmerich -9

The hill opened...

and at Adam’s side arose a crystalline rock, formed apparently of precious stones. At Eve’s lay a white valley covered with something like fine white pollen [stuifmeel].

When Eve had been formed, I saw that God gave something - or allowed something - to flow upon Adam. It was as if there streamed from the Godhead, apparently in human form, currents of light from forehead, mouth, breast, and hands. They united into a globe of light, which entered Adam’s right side whence Eve had been taken. 

Adam alone received it. It was the germ of God’s Blessing, which was threefold. The Blessing that Abraham received from the angel was one. It was of similar form, but not so luminous. 

Eve arose before Adam... 

and he gave her his hand. 

They were like two unspeakably noble and beautiful children, perfectly luminous, and clothed with beams of light as with a veil. From Adam’s mouth I saw issuing a broad stream of glittering light, and upon his forehead was an expression of great majesty. 

Around his mouth played a sunbeam, but there was none around Eve’s. I saw Adam’s heart very much the same as in men of the present day, but his breast was surrounded by rays of light. 

In the middle of his heart, I saw a sparkling halo of glory. In it was a tiny figure, as if holding something in its hand. I think it symbolized the Third Person of the Godhead. 

From the hands and feet of Adam and Eve, shot rays of light. Their hair fell in five glittering tresses [lokken], two from the temples, two behind the ears, and one from the back of the head.

I have always thought, that by the Wounds of Jesus, there were opened anew in the human body portals closed by Adam’s sin. I have been given to understand, that Longinus opened in Jesus’ side the gate of regeneration to eternal life - therefore no one entered Heaven, while that gate was closed.

The glittering beams [stralen] on Adam’s head... 

denoted his abundant fruitfulness [vruchtbaarheid], his glory, his connection with other radiations. And all this shining beauty is restored [teruggegeven] to glorified souls and bodies. 

Our hair is the ruined, the extinct glory. And as is this hair of ours to rays of light, so is our present flesh to that of Adam before the Fall. The sunbeams around Adam’s mouth bore reference [verwezen] to a holy posterity [nageslacht] from God, which, had it not been for the Fall, would have been effectuated by the spoken word.

Adam stretched forth his hand to Eve. 

They left the charming spot of Eve’s creation, and went through Paradise, looking at everything, rejoicing in everything. That place was the highest in Paradise. 

All was more radiant, more resplendent there... 

than elsewhere.

~bron~